Bite-Size Bacon and Cheese Scones

Cute as a button, and not much bigger, these buttery, bacony scones are the most diminutive and darned good biscuits we've had in recent memory. Maybe ever.

45 mins

Roasted Sweet Potato and Feta Salad

There's a lot to like here. The caramelized sweetness of sweet potatoes and onions. The salty and tangy creaminess of feta. And the knowing that you're doing something decent for yourself without it tasting like penance.

1 hr 15 mins

Roast Chicken with Citrus

The words "orange chicken" used to make us think of gloppy Chinese takeout—until we tried this orange chicken.

2 hrs 40 mins

Skillet Roast Chicken

This sassy roast chicken gets its moist meat and ultra-crisp skin from the two-step process of searing it in a skillet then sliding the whole thing in the oven. Simplicity.

1 hr 20 mins

Chocolate Sour Cream Bundt Cake

Does the true beauty of this cake lie in its stunning silhouette? Its intensely chocolatey chocolatiness? Or its lazy-day ease? You tell us.

1 hr 30 mins

Poor Man’s Champagne Cocktail

Not that we have anything against bubbly. Gosh, no. But ounce for ounce, this is a far more budget-conscious cocktail.

5 mins

Strawberry Ice Cream

The tempered sweetness of this spectacular strawberry ice cream relies on in-season strawberries rather than obscene amounts of sugar for flavor.

4 hrs

Spicy Sriracha Chicken Wings

These Sriracha chicken wings are super enticing despite being super spicy—or is it precisely because they're super spicy?

5 hrs

Sidecar Cocktail

Created during Prohibition, this collision of Cognac, orange liqueur, and lemon isn't for the faint of heart—nor for the slight of tolerance.

10 mins

Roast Chicken with Pancetta and Olives

"One of the best chicken recipes ever!" "Crisp-skinned." "Juicy." "Aromatic." "Easy." "Gorgeous." "Heavenly." That's what we're hearing from folks who've tried it.

1 hr 30 mins

Banana Cream Pie

Behold, the pie that prompted Beth M. Howard's parents’ marriage proposal. One taste and we understood why. We think you will, too.

1 hr

Summer Vegetable Gratin

What to do with late summer abundance? Chef Alain Ducasse's fancy-pants interpretation of a Provençal classic.

1 hr

Sport Pepper Sauce

A staple down South, these pickled peppers and the hot, hot, hot solution that bathes them have a kick that's as fiesty as it appears.

15 mins

The Derby Cocktail

Bourbon. Curaçao. Sweet vermouth. Lime. We're sad we didn't concoct this comforting little ditty. But we're glad somebody did.

5 mins

Sautéed Chicken Liver on Toast

Tuscan through and through, this classic first course snazzes up chicken livers with capers, butter, onion, anchovies, and a splash of that other Tuscan tradition.

30 mins

Coconut Cake

Flaunting an always-stunning, goes-with-anything white, this coconut cake glams up dinner parties, bridal showers, weddings, birthdays, and Tuesday nights.

1 hr 15 mins

Lamb Burger ~ Bifteki Arniou

Definitely a nonconformist, this beauty of a burger melds lamb, pork, grilled onion, mustard, parsley, dill, fennel, cumin, lemon, and scallion. We dare you.

45 mins

Cinnamon Pecan Blondies

Chewy, buttery, and teeming with toffee flavor, these are a sophisticated take on those made-from-a-box blondies you scarfed down with your carton of milk in the school cafeteria.

1 hr 30 mins

Root Vegetable Gratin

This gratin is a great way to hide your veggies. Even from the kids. The hero? Cheese, natch. It'll have your whole family chowing down.

2 hrs